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...issue of the Lampoon--the Christmas issue, I suppose--resembles a rather thin, but well-cared-for child. For once there is nothing really bad in it, and there are several instances of genuine humor. It is a correctly-balanced issue, with the proper proportions of verse, story, and cartoon. Although the contributors to this Lampoon do not always succeed in being funny, they at least appear to have tried...
Rome's Communist weekly New Ways five years ago ran a cartoon showing the Pope atop a tank, a dollar sign dangling from his neck. He was blessing such heavily armed "warmongers" as Churchill, Dulles and Harriman (see cut). When the Italian government spotted the cartoon it began a criminal action against the editor, since under Italian law insults to the Pope are punishable by the government. But it could not get its case into court. Reason: the New Ways' editor is Luigi Longo, hard-bitten leader of Italy's Communist partisans during...
...showpiece items in Britain's leading humor magazine, Punch's cartoons are known the world over. But its punchless articles are scarcely noticed even in Britain. It was not always so: once Punch was as well known for its caustic writing and cartoons on the social and political scene as it was for its humor. Punch shocked the world by printing Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," a poem that bitterly described the sweatshops of the Industrial Revolution, and during World War I, Punch's attacks on the Kaiser were so pointed that the Germans...
GERALD McBOING BOING (25 pp.)-United Productions of America-Simon & Schuster ($1). The little boy with the built-in sound track for a voice brings his success story from the motion-picture cartoon to the printed page...
...their real purpose for such extra curricular activity being ultimate memberships in a senior society. As President Griswold told the CRIMSON: "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." We also refer Mr. May to the Yale News cartoon "To Be or Not to Be" which appeared shortly before Tap Day in 1950. The cartoon showed a mass of scrambling Yale men ascending to a heaven labeled "secret societies" by means of a ladder whose rungs were "Activities ... athletics...fraternities...